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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…

Can Self-Compassion Make You Better at Public Speaking?

Compassionate Love Quiz

Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…

How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace

Gratitude Quiz

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding…

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

Mindfulness Quiz

For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

Connection to Humanity Quiz

Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…

How Modern Life Became Disconnected from Nature

Awe Quiz

When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…

Three Keys to Happiness at Work

Social Capital Quiz

Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…

Three Keys to Happiness at Work

Stress and Anxiety Quiz

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…

What Makes a Political Apology Seem Sincere?

Forgiveness Quiz

The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…

If You’re Stressed, You Need Empathic Friends

Empathy Quiz

Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…

Six Myths about Success That Can Hold You Back

Altruism Quiz